Reggio Calabria – Financiers of the Provincial Command of the Guardia di Finanza of Reggio Calabria, with the support of the Central Organized Crime Investigation Service – SCICO and the Provincial Commands of the Guardia di Finanza of Ancona and Pesaro-Urbino, coordinated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office – District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Reggio Calabria, directed by Giovanni Bombardieri, are implementing – in Calabria and Marche – a provision issued by the Prevention Measures Section of the local Court which orders the application of the patrimonial prevention measure of the seizure of assets for a total estimated value in approximately 5 million euros. The activity allows us to materialize from an economic-financial point of view, through the attack on the assets attributable to the gangs, the investigative context deriving from the “Eyphemos” operation, already conducted by the Flying Squad of the Reggio Calabria Police Headquarters. The seizure is the result of the synergistic collaboration between police forces in the fight against organized crime, under the coordination of the local prosecutor’s office. The economic-financial investigation was carried out by soldiers belonging to the GICO of the Economic-Financial Police Unit of Reggio Calabria, against a subject originally from the province of Reggio Calabria, with entrepreneurial interests in the construction sector, whose criminal figure had emerged in the aforementioned “Eyphemos” operation, which made it possible to reveal the structure and operations of the ‘ndrangheta local of Sant’Eufemia d’Aspromonte, equipped with margins of autonomy compared to the reference gang, that of the “Alvaro” , within which man would have played a leading role.
In particular, based on the investigative findings of the aforementioned investigation, the entrepreneur would have been the leader, promoter and organizer of a mafia faction within the aforementioned ‘ndrangheta establishment, with decision-making and planning duties for the criminal actions to be carried out. Furthermore, thanks to his criminal charisma, he would have managed to catalyze a large number of associates who wanted to found a new bank, or to formalize that autonomy that, in fact, had already been exercised by the group for some time. The entrepreneur also planned the economic activities to be started through which to launder the money and coordinated the implementation of acts of asset disposal aimed at evading the application of asset measures through the fictitious registration of the assets attributable to him.
For such conduct – at the stage of the proceedings and subject to subsequent assessments regarding the actual and definitive determination of responsibility – the individual was sentenced in the second instance to a 19-year prison sentence for the crime, among others, of mafia-style association. In light of the aforementioned evidence, the local Anti-Mafia District Directorate – increasingly interested in the economic-entrepreneurial aspects linked to organized crime – has delegated the GICO of the Economic and Financial Police Unit of Reggio Calabria to carry out a specific economic/patrimonial investigation aimed at applying personal and patrimonial preventive measures.
On this basis, with the provision in execution, the Prevention Measures Section of the Court of Reggio – at the state of the proceedings and without prejudice to any subsequent assessment on the merits – has ordered the application of the patrimonial prevention measure of the seizure of the illicit assets attributable to to the entrepreneur, made up, specifically, of the entire business complex of 1 sole proprietorship and 2 companies operating in the construction sector, 10 properties, of which 3 land and 7 buildings located in the provinces of Reggio Calabria, Ancona and Pesaro Urbino, as well as banking, financial, insurance relationships and related availability, for a total value estimated at approximately 5 million euros. The service activity in review testifies, once again, to the high level of attention of the Guardia di Finanza which – following the precise indications of the Reggio Judicial Authority and in collaboration with the State Police only for the part concerning the technical activity already conducted during the investigations – continues to be aimed at the identification and consequent attack of the assets and financial resources illicitly accumulated by mafia-type criminal gangs, with the aim of stemming the pollution of the market and promoting free competition, with the intent to restore adequate levels of legality and protect healthy entrepreneurship while ensuring transparency and public safety.
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